Chapter Summaries

Chen Lin brought Song Qiuya, Qin Chuxia, and Qin Churan to his family home, where the sisters were astonished by the flavor of his family’s spirit-spring-grown food. Over lunch and tea, Chen Lin and Song Qiuya named their planned company Autumn Forest Group, and Qin Chuxia offered to handle its legal and business setup.

• Chen Guofu and Liu Shuqin welcomed Chen Lin and the three women, while Li Xiaoyue felt overshadowed by them and Song Qiuya took the tea tray from her.
• Qin Chuxia and Qin Churan tasted the family’s cherry tomatoes and cucumbers and were amazed by their extraordinary flavor.
• Liu Shuqin served a delicious lunch, and Qin Chuxia and Qin Churan ate enthusiastically as Chen Guofu proudly boasted about Chen Lin.
• Chen Lin and Song Qiuya agreed to call their planned company Autumn Forest Group, and Chen Lin told Qin Chuxia that Song Qiuya would be its future CEO.
• Qin Chuxia offered her legal and business expertise to help establish the company, and Chen Lin looked to Song Qiuya for her opinion.

Song Qiuya appointed Qin Chuxia chief legal officer of Autumn Forest Group, hoping to keep her busy and away from Chen Lin. The next morning, Zhao Jie and Song Qiuya experienced dramatic results from Chen Lin’s Body-Sculpting Pill, while Qin Chuxia eagerly called to begin registering the company.

• Song Qiuya offered Qin Chuxia the chief legal officer position at Autumn Forest Group, and Qin Chuxia eagerly accepted.
• Chen Lin dropped Qin Chuxia and Qin Churan off at their aunt’s home, then returned to River View Splendor Mansion with Song Qiuya.
• Song Qiuya told Chen Lin that she considered him hers alone, and he reassured her that she would always be the center of his world.
• Zhao Jie called Chen Lin the next morning to report losing eleven pounds overnight after taking the Body-Sculpting Pill.
• Song Qiuya noticed her body had changed overnight, with smoother skin, a slimmer waist, and more defined abs.
• Qin Chuxia called Chen Lin to say she had prepared the company registration documents and wanted to go to the business registration bureau.

Chen Lin handed the company’s daily operations to Song Qiuya, then added spirit spring water to the Reservoir while construction continued. At the same time, Qin Churan transferred to Yicheng’s Traffic Police Brigade to investigate Chen Lin, who later relaxed at home with his cats as Su Mei arrived.

• Chen Lin told Qin Chuxia that Song Qiuya would manage the company, leaving Qin Chuxia to ride with Song while he drove to the Reservoir construction site.
• Project manager Chang Chenghu reported that the Water Restaurant’s walkway and utilities were finished and that the Sanatorium project had begun.
• Chen Lin took an electric boat onto the Reservoir and secretly poured spirit spring water from five porcelain bottles into it.
• Qin Churan rejected her uncle Xia Xuejun’s offer to lead the Criminal Investigation Team and arranged to report to the Traffic Police Brigade instead, intending to uncover Chen Lin’s secrets.
• Chen Lin rested beneath the locust tree with Clear Wind and Bright Moon until Su Mei arrived and teased him about taking it easy.

Chen Lin planned the resort’s water park and fishing center while struggling to figure out how to sell a chest of ancient gold coins. Meanwhile, Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia finished registering the Autumn Forest Group and prepared to find office space.

• Chen Lin agreed to give Su Mei a Body-Sculpting Pill and told her to have Chen Shuting prepare designs and preliminary cost estimates for the resort’s water park and fishing center.
• Chen Lin examined a chest containing thousands of gold coins from the Great Kun Empire and wondered how to melt them down without grinding away each coin’s markings.
• Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia submitted the Autumn Forest Group’s registration documents, and Song Qiuya told Qin Chuxia they still needed to inspect office buildings.
• Chen Lin called Song Qiuya to ask for reputable goldsmiths in Yicheng, and she gave him three shops’ contact details while warning him to be careful.
• Qin Chuxia asked Song Qiuya whether Chen Lin missed them, but Song Qiuya dismissed the call as company business and went to the elevator.

Chen Lin disguised himself and secretly turned 244 kilograms of otherworldly coins into gold bars at an old-town gold shop. When he returned to Song Qiuya’s apartment, he found Qin Chuxia had bought the place next door and was asking to stay the night.

• Chen Lin transformed himself into an overweight middle-aged man and used Clear Wind and Bright Moon to make a goldsmith and his apprentice smelt his coins without remembering the work.
• Chen Lin collected 244 kilograms of gold bars, paid the shop, and slipped out through the back door before the illusion ended.
• Chen Lin returned to Song Qiuya’s apartment with fresh ingredients and found a couple moving into the formerly vacant place next door.
• Qin Chuxia admitted that she had bought the apartment next door, while Song Qiuya criticized her for paying twice the market price.
• Song Qiuya embraced Chen Lin possessively, and Qin Chuxia asked to stay in their guest room while her new apartment was still being set up.

Song Qiuya learned that Chen Lin had 244 kilograms of gold to sell and offered to arrange a trustworthy buyer. She called her father, Song Guoan, who agreed to buy the entire shipment at the international price the next morning.

• Song Qiuya invited Qin Chuxia to help her cook, then served dinner before Qin settled into the guest room.
• Song Qiuya offered Chen Lin her father's two hundred million yuan, but he declined and told her he had 244 kilograms of gold.
• Song Qiuya realized the gold was worth more than two hundred million yuan and decided to contact Song Guoan as a buyer.
• Song Guoan was stunned by the amount of gold, then agreed to buy it at the day's international price and send someone the next morning.

Song Qiuya celebrated Chen Lin’s father-in-law resolving their problem by spending an unusually passionate night with him, while Qin Chuxia heard them through the thin walls and struggled with her reactions. By morning, Chen Lin made spiritual fish congee for both women and realized their noise had kept Qin Chuxia awake.

• Song Qiuya thanked Chen Lin’s father-in-law for resolving the problem and then passionately drew Chen Lin into the night.
• Qin Chuxia heard the couple through the apartment walls, fled to the bathroom, and later pressed her ear to their bedroom door.
• Back in her room, Qin Chuxia lay awake, thinking of Chen Lin and whispering his name.
• At dawn, Chen Lin finished his cultivation and prepared spiritual fish congee while Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia slept.
• Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia joined Chen Lin for breakfast, and he realized that their night had left Qin Chuxia exhausted.

Chen Lin sold Song Guoan’s gold and stunned the guards by carrying the 244 kilograms in one hand. After the payment arrived, he watched the armored vehicle depart as Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia prepared to continue building Autumn Forest Group.

• Qin Chuxia recovered her energy after eating Song Qiuya’s Fish Fillet Congee made with fish raised in Spirit Spring Water.
• Song Qiuya told Chen Lin that her father had sent people to collect the gold, and Xiao Li arrived with guards and an Armored Transport Vehicle.
• Chen Lin took a wooden chest of gold from his Storage Ring and carried it one-handed, leaving Xiao Li and the guards unable to move it.
• Xiao Li and the guards weighed the gold and loaded it into the vehicle’s secure vault compartment.
• Chen Lin received 209,840,000 yuan, bringing his bank balance to 266,843,515.52 yuan, and the vehicle departed as Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia prepared to work on Autumn Forest Group.

Chen Lin left with his funding secured, but Qin Churan stopped him for a minor speeding violation and issued him a zero-yuan written warning. After he drove away, Qin Churan decided that ordinary probing would not unsettle him and rode off, eager to test him further.

• Song Qiuya took Qin Chuxia to look for office space, while Chen Lin drove toward Chen Family Village with his new funds.
• Qin Churan stopped Chen Lin on the expressway and requested his license and vehicle registration.
• Qin Churan claimed surveillance showed Chen Lin driving three kilometers per hour over the limit and issued him a warning with no fine or penalty points.
• Chen Lin signed the warning, questioned Qin Churan's motives, then drove away after addressing her as Officer Qin.
• Qin Churan watched Chen Lin leave and concluded that he was unusually composed before riding off in the opposite direction.

Chen Lin saw the Reservoir thriving and ordered premium fish stock, while Su Mei reported Zhao Jie’s dramatic weight loss. He then toured Chen Family Village and saw how it had blossomed into a busy tourist destination.

• Chen Lin inspected the Reservoir’s clear water and lively fish, then ordered five thousand jin each of five premium aquatic species from Old Li.
• Chen Lin paid Old Li a five-hundred-thousand-yuan deposit for the fish order, which Old Li promised to deliver within a week.
• Su Mei told Chen Lin that Zhao Jie had lost eighteen jin in two days, and Chen Lin gave her a bottle of Body-Sculpting Pill mixture.
• Chen Lin drove through Chen Family Village and saw its new guesthouses, shops, restaurants, and growing crowds of tourists.
• Villagers greeted Chen Lin warmly, and the tea shop owner’s wife gave him a package of Wufeng Maojian tea.

Chen Lin dealt with the awkward surprise of Qin Churan joining dinner at Song Qiuya’s home, then spent half a month cultivating and reached the third Qi Refining layer. He unlocked and practiced the Object Manipulation Art, discovering its limits while gaining a new supernatural ability.

• Chen Lin returned to Song Qiuya’s home and found Qin Churan there with Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia, learning that Qin Churan had moved in next door and was joining them for dinner.
• Chen Lin and Song Qiuya shared an awkward dinner with Qin Churan and Qin Chuxia, then spent the night together after the cousins left.
• Chen Lin devoted the next half month to cultivation and broke through to the third Qi Refining layer at the Farmhouse Courtyard.
• Chen Lin infused the blank Object Manipulation Art with spiritual energy, revealed its golden instructions, and learned to lift and control a teacup.
• Chen Lin discovered that he could manipulate objects under half a kilogram within thirty meters for up to two minutes, and reflected on the two modest hauls from the Myriad Worlds Garbage Station.

Chen Lin learned that the Natural Bathing Beach’s popularity had caused a massive traffic jam, then drove toward the city to review new resort designs. On the highway, An Changlin promised city funding for a large parking lot, and Qin Churan arrived and fixed her attention on Chen Lin.

• Su Mei told Chen Lin that the Natural Bathing Beach drew more than three thousand visitors daily and cars had jammed the provincial highway for kilometers.
• Chen Lin set out for the city to see the Water Park and Fishing Center designs and visit Song Qiuya and Qin Chuxia.
• An Changlin became trapped in the traffic while inspecting the government-funded Sanatorium project and learned how popular Chen Family Village’s Resort had become.
• An Changlin met Chen Lin and announced that the city would build a two-thousand-space eco-friendly parking lot along the highway at government expense.
• Qin Churan arrived on her police motorcycle, saluted An Changlin, and fixed a challenging gaze on Chen Lin.

Chen Lin detected the smell of a corpse coming from a white cargo van and convinced Qin Churan that his unusually sharp sense of smell was accurate. They followed the van from the city to a remote country lane, where the driver still seemed unaware he was being pursued.

• Qin Churan left her police motorcycle with a colleague and rode with Chen Lin in his Bentley after An Changlin finished coordinating with him.
• At a traffic light, Chen Lin smelled blood and decay coming from a white cargo van and began following it.
• Qin Churan questioned Chen Lin, who demonstrated his keen sense of smell by identifying details about her period and lunch.
• Chen Lin confirmed that the van carried the smell of human blood and a corpse, and Qin Churan took the possibility seriously.
• Chen Lin and Qin Churan followed the van for thirty minutes until it turned onto a deserted country lane lined with woods and abandoned fields.

Chen Lin and Qin Churan followed three masked men and a waste-station worker to a landfill, where they discovered the men planned to dispose of bodies. Chen Lin used the Object Manipulation Art to make the worker fall, distracting the group as they prepared to act.

• Chen Lin and Qin Churan secretly watched three masked men pay a fat waste-station worker and unload six blood- and corpse-stinking travel bags from their van.
• The worker led the masked men along a mountain trail toward Yicheng City's waste treatment station, with Chen Lin and Qin Churan following them.
• Chen Lin and Qin Churan saw the men reach an isolated trash heap where they were about to dump the bodies.
• Chen Lin used the Object Manipulation Art to roll a discarded beer bottle beneath the worker's foot, making him fall and startling the three masked men.

Chen Lin and Qin Churan stopped four criminals at a waste disposal station and discovered at least three dismembered bodies in six duffel bags. Police arrived to secure the scene and take the suspects and evidence away, while Chen Lin and Qin Churan headed to the station to give statements.

• Chen Lin quickly incapacitated three thugs, and Qin Churan subdued the fat man who had been struggling in the water.
• Qin Churan opened the duffel bags and found body parts from at least three victims, then called Xia Xuejun to report the murder scene.
• Xia Xuejun sent the Criminal Investigation Team, and police arrived fifteen minutes later to surround the waste disposal station.
• Li Xiang and An Xin led the investigators as officers sealed the scene and forensic pathologists collected the bags.
• Police took the four suspects into custody, and Chen Lin and Qin Churan drove to the Criminal Investigation Team to give statements.

Chen Lin and Qin Churan gave statements after exposing a gang disposing of human remains, and Qin refused to let him shift credit onto her. After learning the dump contained remains from at least five victims and the gang had disposed of bodies three times that year, Qin returned to criminal investigation as Yicheng’s new Criminal Police Brigade captain, while Chen Lin left alone.

• On the drive to the police station, Chen Lin offered Qin Churan all the credit, but she insisted her report would contain only the facts.
• Acting Captain An Xin took Chen Lin’s statement and tried to recruit him, but Chen refused because he wanted to avoid restrictions.
• Deputy Bureau Chief Li Xiang told Qin Churan that the remains belonged to at least five people and that the suspects had disposed of bodies three times that year; Qin demanded the case files.
• After finishing his statement, Chen Lin learned that Qin had transferred back and become captain of Yicheng’s Criminal Police Brigade.
• Chen Lin left the police station alone and drove toward the city center.

Chen Lin visited Autumn Forest Group and learned that Song Qiuya had returned from the Provincial Drug Administration in Wucheng looking troubled. After Li Wenwen described Deputy Bureau Chief Ma’s attempt to get Song alone, Chen Lin reacted with cold anger and ended the chapter asking whether Ma wanted to die.

• Qin Chuxia introduced Chen Lin to Autumn Forest Group’s employees as the chairman and largest shareholder.
• Qin Chuxia told Chen Lin that Song Qiuya had seemed upset since returning from the Provincial Drug Administration in Wucheng.
• Chen Lin and Qin Chuxia questioned Song Qiuya’s assistant, Li Wenwen, after Chen assured her that he was Song’s boyfriend.
• Li Wenwen explained that Deputy Bureau Chief Ma had summoned Song to discuss problems with the company’s documents and then tried to speak with her in private.
• Chen Lin grew furious as Li Wenwen recounted Song’s confrontation with Ma, then asked whether Ma wanted to die.

Chen Lin reunited with Song Qiuya at her office, then left for Wucheng to investigate a deputy bureau chief who had targeted her. After receiving a detailed dossier from An Changlin, Chen Lin considered how to deal with the official and realized Gao Yuliang had likely helped obtain the information.

• Chen Lin told Qin Chuxia and another person not to tell Song Qiuya what they had discussed, then went to see her.
• Song Qiuya joyfully embraced Chen Lin, and they spent time together in her office lounge.
• Chen Lin reassured Song Qiuya that he would return after handling something that night, then said goodbye to her and Qin Chuxia.
• Chen Lin called An Changlin and asked him to investigate Deputy Bureau Chief Ma Weiguo of the Wucheng Provincial Medical Products Administration.
• An Changlin sent Chen Lin a dossier detailing Ma Weiguo's career, assets, mistresses, and suspected corruption.
• Chen Lin arrived in Wucheng, acknowledged An Changlin's warning to stay within bounds, and suspected Gao Yuliang had obtained the dossier.

Chen Lin disguised himself, kidnapped Ma Weiguo, and took him to an unfinished building to interrogate him about Song Qiuya. Ma Weiguo broke under torture and agreed to tell Chen Lin what had happened.

• Chen Lin used the Shape-Shifting Vajra Bracelet to disguise himself and went to Ma Weiguo's apartment.
• Chen Lin forced his way inside, knocked Ma Weiguo unconscious, and hid him in a suitcase.
• Chen Lin carried Ma Weiguo to a rooftop at an unfinished building and woke him.
• Chen Lin broke Ma Weiguo's little finger and threatened to keep torturing him until he answered.
• Ma Weiguo agreed to talk, and Chen Lin asked what he had said and done to Song Qiuya.

Chen Lin tortured Ma Weiguo until he confessed to threatening Song Qiuya over approval of the Body-Sculpting Pill and forcing her to sleep with him. Ma Weiguo wrote down his crimes, revealing he had embezzled seven or eight hundred million, including over three hundred million from epidemic-prevention supplies; Chen Lin was left seething at the scale of his corruption.

• Ma Weiguo recognized Song Qiuya as Chen Lin's girlfriend and begged for forgiveness, then confessed that he had used the product approval process to pressure her into sleeping with him.
• Chen Lin broke the fingers on Ma Weiguo's other hand and gave him a choice between jumping off the rooftop or writing down his crimes.
• Ma Weiguo chose to write, and Chen Lin demanded that he include his Swiss bank account and the apartment he had bought in his wife's nephew's name.
• Ma Weiguo listed his bribes, embezzlement, properties, and mistresses, admitting that he had stolen seven or eight hundred million in five or six years.
• Chen Lin learned that Ma Weiguo had pocketed over three hundred million by exploiting epidemic-prevention supply approvals during early 2020.